Part 1 of Formula 1 2022 Season Review (the teams)

Two parter Formula One season review of the 2022 season. In this post I will review each team of 2022. Which, I will say one sentence that will be positive with each team. And one sentence that will be negative for each team. So starting with Red Bull below.

Red Bull:
+ Best car and driver on the grid with the RB18, seventeen wins from Red Bull, which includes two Grand Prix wins for Sergio Pérez; and a record breaking fifteen wins for Max Verstappen to conclude to win the 2022 F1 Drivers' Championship and Red Bull's first Constructors' Title since 2013.
- Double DNF in Bahrain and the death of Team Founder Dietrich Mateschitz back in late October.

Ferrari
+ Some great race performances from both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, Jr., which includes three Grand Prix wins for Leclerc at Bahrain, Melbourne and the Red Bull Ring and Sainz, Jr. won at Silverstone; only 323.5 points at this stage last season, 554 points this season at this stage a much better improvement from Ferrari to conclude second in the Constructor's standings.
- The team missed out on wins for Leclerc at Barcalona (Turbo), Monaco (tyre strategy), Baku (Turbo), Silverstone (not pitting for soft tyres late on), Paul Ricard (spun out), Hunganoring (pitting for wrong tyres) and Monza (tyre strategy); that cost Ferrari to challange both championships resulted the job of Team principal Mattia Binotto, Frédéric Vasseur will replace him for 2023.

Mercedes:
+ Grand Prix win for George Russell at Sao Paulo.
- Where to start, F1 W13 has been the third fastest car on the grid all season, no Grand Prix wins for Sir Lewis Hamilton (the first time in a season in his career); 613.5 points last season, 515 points this season resulted third in the Constructor's standings for Mercedes.

Alpine:
+ Fourth in the Constructor's standings, includes fourth place finish for Esteban Ocon at Suzuka; and strong performances from Fernando Alonso throughout the seasonincludes three fifth place finishes each for Alonso at Silverstone, Spa and Sao Paulo.
- Alonso could have finish on the podium at Montreal; apart from that the team have let themselves down on not renewing Alonso for 2023 (off to Aston Martin) and whats happened with Oscar Piastri (off to McLaren in 2023).

McLaren:
+ Some great race performances from Lando Norris, which include a third place finish for Norris at Imola.
-275 points at this stage last season, only 159 points this season at this stage, not great from McLaren and the team finished fifth in the Constructor's standings a long way off the top three, not acceptable from the team like McLaren resulting Daniel Ricciardo release a season early from his contract than planned.

Alfa Romeo:
+ Some impressive performances from Valtteri Bottas which include fifth place finsish at Imola and sixth place finishes at Bahrain and Barcalona; 13 points at this stage last season, 55 points at this stage this season means the team finished sixth in the Constructor's standings with Audi coming around the corner in 2026.
-Three DNF last season, ten DNFs this season includes poor reliablity from the Ferrari Power-Units and Guanyu Zhou's masssive crash at Silverstone that almost cost sixth in the Constructor's standings this season; the team is heavily relying on Bottas to score points.

Aston Martin:
+ Sixth place finishes for Sebastian Vettel at Baku and Suzuka, one sixth place finish for Lance Stroll at Singapore.
- AMR22 has been poor in qualifying which effect their race results (cost them sixth in Constructors'standing in the end), seventh in the Constructors' with 55 points this season compare to 77 points at this stage last season, the team need to do better going into the 2023 season and Fernando Alonso won't accept it.

Haas:
+ 0 points at this stage last season, 37 points at this stage this season means the team finished eighth in the Constructor's standings, some impressive performances from both Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher which includes fifth place for Magnussen at Bahrain at his return after a season away, pole psotion at Sao Paulo and for Schumacher for sixth place at the Red Bull Ring; much better improvements from Haas.
- Poor races from Mick Schumacher where he should have scored points like races in Miami, massive crashes at Jeddah and Monaco cost the team more points then they should resulting Schumacher being repalced by more experenced Nico Hülkenberg, this will help them going into the 2023 season; better season although their second half of the season the team only managed three points from the Red Bull Ring onwards.

Scuderia AlphaTauri:
+ Some great race performances from Pierre Gasly, which include a fifth place finish for Gasly at Baku.
- 142 points at this stage last season, only 35points this season at this stage, not great from AlphaTauri and the team finished ninth in the Constructor's standings, losing Pierre Gasly to Alpine for 2023 won't help the team going into 2023 to bounch back.

Williams: + Some impressive performances from Alexander Albon this season, which include strong performances at Melbourne (finishing tenth), Imola (finishing eleventh), Miami (finishing ninth) and Spa (finsihing tenth) after a season away; Nyck de Vries one-off performance at Monza (finsihing ninth) and for Nicholas Latifi (finishing ninth place finish at Suzuka).
- 23 points last season compare to 8 points this season at this stage, not great from Williams, slowest car on the grid; the team is heavily relying on Albon (this time) to score points, resulted the job of Team principal Jost Capito firing from the team, with unknown future for the team with current owners Dorilton Capital set to sell the team.

In part 2 of Formula 1 2022 Season Review my top 12 Formula 1 drivers of 2022. And my final thoughts of Formula 1 2022.